NHSL 222363 Health Protection Nurse (EG)

NHS National Services Scotland; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service organization in Edinburgh is seeking a Health Protection Nurse to provide a robust response to communicable diseases as part of the East Region Health Protection Team. The ideal candidate is a Registered Nurse with significant experience, ideally in infection control or public health, and has strong communication skills. This fixed-term position offers the opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team to enhance the health of the population.

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Nurse with significant post registration experience.
• Experience in infection control or public health is beneficial.
• Confidence in working both independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational response to communicable diseases.
• Collaborate with public health teams and external stakeholders.
• Deliver health protection activities including service planning and evidence-based advice.

Skills

Effective communication

Teamwork

Infection control knowledge

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

NHS Lothian is excited to be recruiting to a Health Protection Nurse based at Astley Ainslie Hospital. This post is fixed term for 1 year.

We are looking for an inspirational leader who is caring, compassionate and motivated to join our strong, empowered and highly skilled nursing family.

Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. It also demonstrates what you can expect from our organisation and what you can aspire to in your own career development. A collaborative, person focused approach is at the very centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We continue to work towards having a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services. We want everyone to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities. We are committed to supporting the development of a nursing and midwifery workforce that is made up of diverse skills and experiences. We are interested in your passion for developing with us as a leader as well as demonstrating alignment with the values and ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. We are committed to providing the strong foundations of clinical education with our Clinical Education and Training team, our education co-ordinators, robust induction programmes and preceptorship as well as working with you to build on your leadership strengths.

We use a values and competency-based recruitment process that is linked to the ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. Within NHS Lothian, Nursing and Midwifery interviews are linked to our Nursing & Midwifery Strategic Plan. We aim to offer an equitable experience and are sharing interview questions in advance. A selection of the interview questions can be found on our Careers site: How to Apply – NHS Lothian Careers

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

This is an exciting position within the directorate of Public Health and Health Policy based in the office at NHS Lothian, Astley Ainslie, Edinburgh. The Post holder will work as part of the East Region Health Protection Team which covers health protection for NHS Lothian, Borders, Fife and Forth Valley. The post holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team comprising of Consultants in Health Protection Nurses and the admin support to provide the operational response to the prevention and control of communicable diseases and environmental hazards impacting on health of the population of the East Region.

You will work as an essential member of the team to provide a robust response to the control of communicable disease. You will work collaboratively with wider public health teams and external key stakeholders such as Environmental Health Officers and Infection Prevention and Control Teams. You will be expected to deliver across a range of health protection activities including: service planning; development and implementation of policies, protocols, and guidelines; and the provision of evidence based advice to patients, communities, healthcare teams and other professionals. After a period of induction you will take part in the Out of Hours Public Health rota to help provide this response over a twenty four hour period.

You will need to be a confident communicator who is able to work both independently and as part of a diverse team. You will be a Registered Nurse, with significant post registration experience, including clinical experience ideally in a related discipline. Experience in infection control, infectious diseases, or an area of public health would be beneficial.

The service runs from 08:00 – 18:00 Monday to Friday and there may be times that you are required to work Saturdays and Sundays.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact Mary Morrissey Advanced Health Protection Nurse or Louise Wellington CNM on 0300 790 62 64